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Kevin gave me a Sterling pick up and scratchplate! He wouldn't even take a couple of quid for postage. In my book, this puts him at the top table between Mother Theresa and Mr Rogers. This man is truly a Dude.
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Here's a bass I put together to have a dabble on, but it seems I'm definitely a four-string bassist! It's a great playing bass, with some good quality parts- the EMG pickup is superb. The Ibanez bridge is 17mm spacing. It's a Squier neck and it's fairly shallow. There are some issues: It's got a few scuffs, but nothing that you can see from a metre away. The routing is a bit untidy under the pickguard (but you obviously can't see it) There's a sticker behind the battery door (slightly wonky...) which hides some marks. I've had to put a longer screw in the plate down by the output jack to secure it. Once again, you wouldn't know unless you were looking for it. Other than that, it's a nice instrument and would make a good start to the world of the 5 string. I like to think it has a certain, rustic charm (cough). I'm based in Halesowen and I can organise a socially distanced demonstration if you want to try it out. Postage is possible at cost - about £15 should cover it. Any questions, please ask.-
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EMG 35P4 Pickup and Pots SOLD
rushbo replied to rushbo's topic in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale
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SOLD Up for grabs is a lovely EMG-35P4 pick up in good condition with a couple of pots (marked "Passive Tone" and "Volume"). The pots are unused. It's a great sounding unit with plenty of heft (!) but you can also get a nice mellow tone out of it, too. You'll probably need the EMG wiring loom as this is one of those solderless dealios, unless there's a way you can get around that. £30 posted to any household in these fair British Isles. Ian
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Almost anything by the Minutemen. Do Public Image Limited count as punk? If so, anything with Jah Wobble on.
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Amazing stuff, thanks Steve! No "Liar" in this batch, but loads of Deaky related goodness to enjoy.
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I had one of these in CAR. Really nice instruments, if mine was typical. I remember the neck being quite wide and shallow. It sounded great, but I struggle with 5 stringers. Someone might get a lovely instrument for not much cash, here.
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I've just remembered a very unlikely candidate for this thread - The Strawbs. A band I played drums for (don't judge me...) supported them at the Robin II in beautiful, downtown Bilston, a few years ago. From what I gather, we seemed to be mixed to an appropriate volume for the room, but apparently no-one had told the Strawb's sound engineer that they weren't playing Wembley Arena. It was horrendous. A distorted, potentially life threatening tangle of noise. I packed my gear away and sat in my car in the car park across the road. Unbelievably, it was still too loud there, too.
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I'm "on" the Bill Nelson & The Gentlemen Rocketeers live DVD/CD from March 2011. A blistering gig. A brilliant combination of a tiny venue and an uber-partisan crowd. I seem to remember that the tickets were eye-wateringly expensive (for 2011), but you did get a glass or two of champagne and a meet-and-greet with the Great Man himself. Here's take 2 of "Maid in Heaven."
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I’ve still got my blue vinyl copy of “Astral Projector”
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Yeah, that was my gateway drug to the wonderful world of (slightly obscure) Canadian hard rock. Then came Triumph, Zon, Wireless, FM, Coney Hatch, Saga...
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I love Canadian Rock bands of this vintage. "High Class in Borrowed Shoes" by Max Webster is a brilliant record, but I wonder if anyone bought it just on the strength of the cover?
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A school friend brought this into class in December 1976, and the minute I saw it, I knew I had to have it. I thought it was the most beautiful looking album I had ever seen - even the label of the record had the Queen crest on! My thinking was that even if the album sounded terrible (apart from Bo Rap, which I liked) it was worth having, just for the cover. I begged for it as a Christmas present and when I heard the whole album, I was put on a path I'm still stumbling on as a 57 year old. Album covers are important.
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Quite a few of the usual suspects here: BeBop Deluxe: Live in the Air Age Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous Who: Live at Leeds Cheap Trick: At Budokan Rush: All the World's a Stage Loud Family: From Ritual to Romance Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day
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The Georgia Satellites at Rock City in Nottingham in '87. Flaming Lips at The Foundry, Birmingham in '96. My hearing never recovered from the Satellites gig, and just to mock me, Dan Baird released a solo album a few years later called "Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired."
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...now THAT, I would love to hear.
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Heavy Metal Kids
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Kings of Leon on their first headlining UK tour. It was four blokes sleepwalking through their album. Dull as ditchwater. Black Crowes at the Phoenix Festival. Three minute songs stretched to beyond breaking point. Mr Tune went home a long time before we did. I was given a ticket to see them in Wolverhampton a few years later and I was expecting the worst. Instead they were brilliant - only a couple of noodly guitar twangathons and plenty of tight, focussed performances.
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I went to a Motley Crue gig in Brum specifically to see the support act- Cheap Trick. I enjoyed Crue more than I thought I would.
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They're viewed as demi-gods in the powerpop circles I sometimes frequent, but they're largely unknown or forgotten everywhere else. There weren't many better records released in the seventies that were better than "No Matter What."
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Just taken delivery of a lovely, Ibanez bridge from Mike. It came promptly and packaged so well, I cried a little when I opened it. Buy and sell with confidence, natch.
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Bass, drums and guitar for me. I've done the occasional thing on ukulele and mandolin, but I'm definitely more of an "owner" than a "player." I do appear on an album, playing the dulcimer on a tune. Weird things happened in the nineties...
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Speaking as someone who lives just outside Stourbridge, there's not a new anything around these parts... There is a Bell End nearby, though: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/hands-bell-end-historic-road-14512296
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I went with a subtle variation: "New Wobbum", which I imagine is a little village somewhere in East Sussex.
